Kind of a Six-Trak on steroids, the Sequential Circuits MulTrack is a pure mid-eighties no-knob synth, but with great sequencer, filter, modulations and multitimbral capabilities it may be worth trying for accessing the famous SCI sound.

No need to present this legendary three VCOs monophonic synth. The Minimoog is considered to be the very first compact synthesizer, designed for musicians by the genius engineer Robert Moog. With its big fat sound due to its quality de-tunable VCOs and its famous transistor-ladder Low-Pass VCF, it became a reference for lead and bass sounds.

6 voices polyphonic synthesizer, the Oberheim Matrix 6 is the mid eighties descendant of the legendary Oberheim synthesizers serie like the OBXa, Xpander, or more closer the Matrix from which it takes most of its characteristics, from a fraction of the price. It features 2 DCOs per voice, 1 Low-Pass VCF, 3 envelopes, 2 LFOs, a 100 patches memory and MIDI implementation. You will have to program it with a controller if you want to get access to this vintage pearl without going crazy due to the lack of knobs!

This is the lengendary Linndrum LM-2, extensively used on 80’s productions (Genesis’s “Mama”, Stevie Wonder’s “Part-Time Lover”, Wham!’s “Last Christmas”, etc.). All 15 drum sounds are made from 35kHz samples, with dedicated controls to tune, pan, and mix each sound. Some great features for the time like “swing”, quantizing possibilites, individual outputs. The Linndrum LM2 is definitely a must have all time classic drum machine!

The Roland Juno-106 is a 6 voices polyphonic vintage analog synthesizer made in 1984. 1 DCO (saw/square/pulse) + Noise + Sub osc per voice, HPF and LPF 24dB/oct, one LFO and one ADSR envelope to modulate DCO and VCF, analog chorus: not really a synthesis master but a lot of personnality, and this Juno model features patch memory (instead of Juno-6) and full MIDI implementation (instead of Juno-60).